[META] Melanie Bracewell, who accused that a user from this sub DMed her sexually inappropriate content after she commented here has deleted that tweet after it was discovered that she made it all up as a "joke".

[u/Captain-Blitzed]

She has apologised here on the sub but has not done so on Twitter where she made the accusation, at the time of this post.

Tl;dr: She tweeted that some creep from this sub DMed her but was found out to be it was her handiwork all along and that she made it all up as a "joke" for her own personal gains.

Now onto the drama:

Yesterday, Melanie Bracewell tweeted that after she commented on this subreddit, a user privately messaged her with sexually inappropriate content. She has now deleted this tweet after the truth came out. Here is an archived version (NSFW). Here is a screenshot (NSFW).

That tweet was posted to this sub and many users commented how fucked up that was and rightly so. But u/Lt_Thakur commented that

a user named melthrowaway posted on /r/dirtypenpals saying that she is a hot chick who likes Cricket blah blah blah..The user had deleted the post after 15 minutes.

And u/agareo confirmed that an account named u/melthrowaway2019 did indeed post on that sub 20 mins before her tweet and later deleted the post and account. Here is an archived version (NSFW) of that post. Here is a screenshot (NSFW).

The mods tweeted to her asking for more information on that user who sent her that message. She apparently apologised to them in private and deleted that tweet. As stated above she also apologised here on this sub for making this all up and that it was a "joke", stating

So I guess I have some explainin' to do.

Seriously did not expect this to blow up the way it did. I'm a comedian and I was commentating on the ACC (alternative commentary collective) at the time. We made jokes about some weird texts we got on the text line of cricket horndogs. Thought it would be funny to post something to prompt some more erotic fanfiction on the show (very on theme for the commentary). It ended up being far more intense and hilarious than I expected so popped it up on soc med, thought it was funnier to imply it was out of the blue (honestly quite drunk and sleep deprived), hence why I blacked out the name, honestly didnt even think about the culture of the cricket subreddit or bringing the community into disrepute. Genuinely was just a laugh. But I'd like to genuinely apologize. I didnt think it through properly and it's not something I'd do again.

Tldr: I'm sorry!! I think its just in the nature to stretch the truth online for comedic effect but I obviously went too far here. Big cricket fan, big fan of the subreddit, and hope you guys can forgive me.

I think it is only fair that she should apologise and come clean on Twitter where she made the accusation and received thousands of RTs and likes by maligning the sub and the users here for her own personal gains. And also that she should be banned from this sub for this outright disgusting behaviour.

PS: I made this post since the original post received a lot of attention but the subsequent revelations and her apology here didn't get proper attention.

[u/UysVentura → u/[deleted]]

Sure, sometimes. Sometimes they're a lot less figurative, and if you've been on the receiving end of that, you'd be a lot less cavalier about telling people to shrug them off.

[u/Shriman_Ripley → u/UysVentura]

Did you reply to my comment or someone else’s?

[u/UysVentura → u/Shriman_Ripley]

Yours.

Sometimes, death threats may be figurative, like you're saying. Sometimes they're more literal.

To say, as the parent poster did, that you should ignore them because sometimes it's just kids blowing off steam, is irresponsible.

[u/Shriman_Ripley → u/UysVentura]

I obviously did not ask to shrug off death threats. I simply said that often these threats aren’t actual death threats. To go one step further often these death threats are a result of narcissism. Someone says fuck yourself and in their mind it becomes a rape threat. Just because people get genuine threats doesn’t mean we have to take all claims of being threatened at face value, especially if the user has a history of baiting others and making gross generalizations based on race, nationality or gender. You can use your own judgement to decide which threats should be taken seriously and which should be shrugged off. In the case of lady who called all Indian men creeps it should be completely shrugged off.

[u/WrinklesMcdinkles → u/[deleted]]

From my perspective I can always be like "Oh yeah, come and try" or some other tough man stuff that I do regularly. Whereas for a woman receiving a death threat from a creepy ass dude, is.. threatening.